2012-01-19

GALEX-orama

I spent the entire morning in the Hungarian Pastry Shop (Columbia hangout) with Schiminovich, discussing our various GALEX projects, but especially our discovery of white-dwarf companions (some of which are very low mass, possibly sub-stellar) and our evil plans to extract and distribute the full time-tagged photon list, along with the relevant spacecraft pointing and sensitivity data to make full use of them. I am so excited about this project: It will provide the highest time-resolution that is physically possible given the aperture, optics, and detectors on the spacecraft. If that doesn't lead to interesting time-domain science, I don't know what will.